Scum

Labour!

As a stupid American I had to read that a few times before it clicked.

A religious leader is homeless but has apartments to rent? Oh, maybe they’re ministering to the homeless - but they raised the rents? . . Ohhhh. Right.

homelessness minister

well yes she's making people homeless, job well done

Maybe she misunderstood and didn’t realize she’s supposed to reduce homelessness.

FIY, the Minister's party (Labour) is currently pushing a law to increase tenants' rights, including preventing this exact situation from happening, which makes the whole situation even more ridiculous and hypocritical.

Labour’s Renters’ Rights Bill, which will become law next year, prohibits landlords who have ended a tenancy in order to sell a property from relisting it for higher rent until at least six months after tenants have moved out.

She resigned rather than keep the rents low. She’s just gonna go full evil landlord now

Labour party lmao

Minister for homelessness, previous experiences appreciated.

My landlord did this. He said he wanted to sell the place, then rented it again at a way higher price. Very illegal, but I moved out of the city - hard to do small claims from so far away.

Look up France-Élaine Duranceau, minister of housing in Québec, Canada. Another fine example.

Always a nice change of pace seeing terrible politicians from outside the US. Terrible for our outlook as a species, but a nice change of scenery none the less.

This is a tough one. First, I don't think MPs shoupd be landlords, but:

• She wanted to sell the house
• She waited until the renters contract expired
• She did offer a rolling contract to the current renters at their existing rent until the house sold
• They declined
• She put the house on the market and opened it up to any short-term renters who wanted to stay there while it was on the market
• She listed it for current going rate
• Someone took it
• The house is still for sale.

To me, there isn't much wrong with that, what is wrong is:

• She didn't wait 6 months. Not only is this terrible, but the optics are horrible and she should know that
• She is using a tenant agency that tried to charge them a ton of move-out fees (She did have them canceled)

And..

She's the HOMELESSNESS MINISTER?!?! Sheash.

Edit: Some additional context from UK peoples - some letting agencies will relist your home without telling you. Fun stuff.

Being a landlord should automatically disqualify you from that position

Guess she meant something different with "unreasonable rent increases".

Incredible. In the worst way.

All landlords are bastards.

update: this article caused her to resign from her Ministerial position the next day.

what a cunt

SMH.

Awful, but unfortunately happens a lot.

I bought my home two years ago in anticipation of my now former landlord selling the building, which he did last year. I didn't want to get priced out of living in the place I wanted to be.

LANDLORDS ARE NOT HUMAN.

That's a homelessness minister alright.

Homelessness minister: I'm doing my part!

If I were to be charitable, she gave them 4 months notice, when the law only requires one, then she tried to sell it and it is still actually on the market at a reduced price. The bulk of the £700 increase, too, is that she was actually initially renting it out at below market value.

However, this is fucking disastrous for image, doubly so given what she's a minister of.

Given the information above, are the headlines overblown and missing very important context? Definitely. Deliberately so, even.

But that's what the media does. And Labour are morons for not preparing for that by vetting their ministers for shit like this.

God they are actually so bad at this. They aren't the Tories, they should know they aren't going to be let off for things like this. They need to be whiter than white. The media wants nothing more than a Conservative or Reform government, and Labour keeps giving them ammo.

Scumbag politicians. Labour is no longer the Labour party, other than in name. They are Alt Tory. filled with the same shitheads.

Finally meaningful action on cutting homeless people in half!

I've never heard about The iPaper so I checked another source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czerl5dy0kgo

Her party's defense is "what she did was legal" despite that they're working on a renter's bill of rights that forbids exactly what she did, which I found quite repulsive.

(She owns three London properties on top of that.)

And this same politician was kicked out of the Grenfell brief due to corpo shenanigans: https://news.sky.com/story/housing-minister-rushanara-ali-loses-brief-after-complaint-by-grenfell-survivors-13237218

job security

News like this accelerates loss of faith in our failed political and economic orthodoxy, so in a way I'm glad to see it.

It's time now for a new and genuine progressive movement to come together and take the fight to Reform. I've signed up to the new Sultana/Corbyn/independent party but I would also recommend supporting a Green party under Zack Polanski, independent candidates who want to collaborate, and grassroots community projects.

Others analysis may differ but mine is that 'the left' is starting to pull together and we should get behind it.

She hadn't read 1984 so she didn't know that ministries are named opposite to the thing they are supposed to promote.

Well, she's the 'Homelessness Minister' not the 'Anti-Homelessness' Minister...

"No, no, my chosen real estate agent did that, I just hired, paid, and supported them to".

Good to see that Labour is protecting the working class! /s

Well if she was solving homelessness, she would then be out of a job and could end up homeless.